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Dot ComBack, Or More Of The Same?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ask-your-doctor dept.

adamsmith_uk writes "The FT features Wall Street's renewed love affair with dotcom stocks on Monday with the latest in a $6bn string of acquisitions that has helped set light to the once-defunct online commerce sector. Could this be the signs of the tech ComBack ?" But hold onto your hopes; ekarjala writes "According to this CNet article, a recent survey by theInformation Technology Association of America indicates that IT hiring in the US is expected to remain flat or decline slightly over the course of 2003. The main drivers are lack of demand for IT products/services and outsourcing IT functions offshore."

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  1. More of the same... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Rampany slashdot faggotry! Oh snap! Oh no girl, oh no he didn't!

  2. Reloaded by bobbozzo · · Score: 0, Troll

    The dotbomb has detonated... RELOAD!

    --
    Nothing to see here; Move along.
  3. Yeah, offshore outsourcing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sorry folks, and i don't consider this racism or bigotry... (though i'm bound to hear both)

    Offshore outsourcing really boils my blood.

    These are jobs that should be available to citizens of the U.S. (in the case of U.S. Companies).

    Fix your job at home.

    I realise that these jobs offer a positive future for people in other places, and taking them away would be a hardship... but...

    Fix your job at home. It is the responsibility of THAT country to take car of its own people. It is not the responsibility of the U.S. to take care of people in other countries at the expense of its own citizens.

    (P.S., yes i know it's all about cheap labour, but that's no excuse)

    -phaeton

    1. Re:Yeah, offshore outsourcing by Uber+Banker · · Score: 0, Troll

      "How much of the stuff you buy says Made In USA on it these days?"

      Yeah... I really want cheap plastic toys made in the US of A. Isn't the point of economic growth to mean the USA (and other 'rich' countires) make the complex expensive stuff, our workers are freed to make these 'value added' things by outsourcing cheap things to other countries.

      I really don't mind call centres sourced from other countries... imagine if all Americans had to stitch your clothes instead of all those Mexicans!!!

      Let me do a more valuable job.

      The unemployed in the US are the lazy, stupid (neither which have any sympathy for) or unlukcky (who have fallen on har times and should be helped back on their feet).

      Don't complain your server admin job has been sourced overseas. Accept lower pay or do something that takes some thinking.

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  7. Re:You're forgetting the main cause... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    yes, the very rich is defined by anyone that makes more than $50,000.

    cry me a river, the president is not to blame for the economy. the pres has very little control over it. you think clinton did anything for the economy, NO he road the good waves. Gee, the problems started to occur before clinton left office. they hit harder immediately after that.

    by your logic, what good did clinton do, except set the country up for failure and hardship. The war rallied support for bush? wow, you are very ignorant. his support is extremely high, and has been for a LONG time. Dont expect him to get voted out of office next election